Tete-A-Tech

A walk down the Yellow Brick Road of Malaysia's Corridor of the future

by Bernice Low, Malaysia

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Why YOU should oppose the DNA Identification Bill (updated)

Aug 3, 2008 14:55

A DNA Identification Bill is due to be "fastracked" through the next session of Parliament, according to the Home Ministry. The Home Ministry takes the view that such a bill would "improve the police's solving rate further".

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Bursa Malaysia CIO has resigned (updated)

Jul 18, 2008 11:13

Posted in The Edge Daily's email alerts for July 17, 2008:

Bursa Malaysia Bhd chief information officer (CIO) Yew Kim Keong has resigned from the stock exchange after taking responsibility for the hardware failure in the trading system that resulted in an unprecedented one-day trading halt on July 3. For the full story, get your copy of The Edge Financial Daily tomorrow.

Read the scoop here at The Edge Daily. Interestingly, there's no mention of this on The Star or New Straits Times either. Have the two papers been beaten to the punch on this story?

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Devil phone in KL?

Jul 16, 2008 11:14

According to the mainstream media scuttlebutt, telco Maxis is likely to be the successful suitor that brings in the iPhone to Malaysia. The Edge Daily has the story here, quoting the Malaysian Insider.
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Looking for Gremlins?

Jul 4, 2008 12:24

They're on vacation herrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Bursa Malaysia was shut down for the entire trading day after what Bursa said was a computer glitch that was ultimately traced to a faulty harddisk in the system that resulted in a system-wide failure of Bursa's equities trading system.
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Battle for digital minds (updated)

Jul 3, 2008 12:29

Updated at 4.20pm: Malaysian alternative media news sites have been experiencing extremely sluggish traffic--Malaysiakini is running a stripped-down site; Malaysia-Today.net is both sluggish to load up and not showing the latest news updates. And even the usually fast-loading Malaysianinsider.com Web site seems to be suffering from slow loading. The Star.com.my also seems to be experiencing unusually heavy traffic. Where is the glitch?
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About Bernice Low

Bernice Low is a screenwriter and pen-for-hire. At age 11 (in the era of BB--Before Blog) Bernice started her own newspaper, the Daily Jelly. It lasted two days before she was stopped from using school newsprint supplies for frivolous activities. She loves Cartoon Network's Bill and Mandy, has a thing for TV doctors House and MacDreamy, and is the proud owner of a 32-inch flat-screen TV. She believes diamonds and iPods are a girl's best friend. Her blog is her latest guilty pleasure.